Outreach Vision:
Get Involved
For information about the people and projects we support at Restoration check out this booklet, or contact Liz
- Join the trip to W Va: read more about it here
- There are lots of ways to volunteer with Casa Chirilagua: for example, mentoring – flexible, 1hr per week, ongoing, Casa Chirilagua, or email emily@casachirilagua.org
- Interested in JUSTICE? Consider getting involved with Just Neighbors, an organization utilizing volunteers to provide legal services to the low-income immigrant community.
- World Orphans Moldova: We are funding a transitional home for girls who either have been trafficked or are at risk from trafficking. Learn more about Restoration’s involvement in Moldova.
- Mike and Jessica Donohue are serving for one year in Uganda with Children of Grace ministries. Follow their work on their blog. To be a part of their prayer team, email nathanmbays[at]gmail[dot]com.
- Prayer gatherings for outreach - time to both intercede on behalf of this community as well as trade ideas, insights, questions, and dreams. Third Saturday EVERY month.For more info please contact Liz Gray
- Persecuted Church: We also use the Barnabas Aid prayer guides daily to help us pray for specific people and situations – available at the church.
- Praying for neighbors: This year we would like to encourage everyone to learn how to pray for those they encounter every day – neighbors, shopkeepers, bus drivers… Look out for opportunities to prayer walk, pray in teams, pray for healing… speak to Liz
- Weekly Outreach Idea: there is one on the bulletin every week – aim to do it and then tell us how it went!
- Every month we are highlighting a different organisation or theme that someone at Restoration is championing. This month Rebecca Harper encourages us to think about trafficking – email her if you’d like to connect and think more about this issue:Modern day slavery. It sounds like an oxymoron, but the sad truth is that there are more people enslaved today than there have ever been in human history. Ever since I discovered that slavery is alive and well throughout the US, God has moved me to do what I can to eradicate this terrible evil. Just as a small illustration of the scope of the problem, the average age that underage girls enter into prostitution in the US is 13. This month, I would ask you to pray that God would transform our society and put an end to modern slavery, particularly as it exists in the red light districts here in Washington, DC.
Here are some suggestions:
1. This month, each time you are stopped at a RED light, pray … Dear Lord, who frees us from the shackles of sin, end the evil of modern slavery within DC’s red light districts
2. the next time you are waiting YELLOW light, pray … Dear Lord, who has promised to never abandon us, give the fathers in our community patience and tender loving kindness towards their children
3. the next time you cruise through a GREEN light, take a moment to pray… Dear Lord, who created our bodies and their desires, release our society from the bondage of sex addiction
Outreach Foci
As a new church we desire from the outset to exist not merely for our own spiritual enrichment but for the sake of revealing Christ to the community and world around us.
We intentionally seek to intercede on behalf of and pray for healing for those we encounter in our local spheres of influence and the global communities we support.
We desire to support Restoration members working in NGOs and Para-church organizations supporting our vision locally in Arlington and overseas. We highly value the role of indigenous churches and will always seek to work with them in overseas work.
We recognize that many Christians in the world are marginalized and persecuted for their faith and we commit to pray for them, and seek ways to walk alongside them.
Christ’s bias is always to the poor and we seek to be aware of, and look to serve the poor in the places we are called.
Lastly, we seek to encourage Restoration members in articulating and embodying the hope and love of Jesus Christ–wherever we find ourselves.
